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Two women and three children under the age of 3 died in the
Saturday wreck on Interstate 435 several miles east of downtown
Kansas City, Missouri, police said in a statement and
interviews.
The car had stopped in the outermost southbound lane of the
freeway when it was struck at about 5 p.m., police said.
”It was not immediately clear if the car had become disabled in
the roadway or possibly run out of gas,” police said in the
statement.
Two of the victims died at the scene and three died at area
hospitals, police said. Their names and how they may have been
related was not disclosed, pending further investigation.
The driver of the truck, unhurt, tested negative for alcohol and
was released pending further investigation, said Darin Snapp, a
spokesman for Kansas City police. He was not charged, Snapp
said.
The accident shut down southbound traffic on the interstate for
about four hours, police said.
(Reporting by Kevin Murphy; editing by Matthew Lewis)
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